Section 277: Emergency Rescue and Disaster Relief
Second, the situation of the electric grain depot is very clear! The accounts and the number of grain stocks are combined, that is, the quality is far from being poor. A large amount of brown rice reserves are aged grains, which can only be used as feed by modern standards. There are no more than 100 stone rice that can be taken out for people to eat.
Therefore, Xiong Buyou played with the idea of often closing positions. In ancient times, the level of communication and transportation was very good, and it was unrealistic to expect the imperial court to provide relief for ordinary natural disasters in the local area. In most cases, it is up to the magistrates to settle the matter themselves. In addition to the county grain depot, there are also warehouses for grain storage in the private sector.
Basically, the local grain households donate some grain every year, store it, and use it for relief in disaster years. The ideas and methods are good, but as soon as they are implemented, they are out of shape, and the reserve grain that is often closed is often encroached upon by the government. So it's always been in name only. The building of Lingao Changping is very magnificent, but it has not let go of a grain of rice for more than 100 years.
Xiong Buyou meant that Wu County ordered a notice to ask the landlords of Shizhong to "donate money" to convey the regular liquidation, anyway, this kind of trick is there every year, and the upper stretchers have long been accustomed to it. The county order came to "persuade donations", and he had to take one or twenty stones out to entertain. In this way, you can also get two or three hundred stone of grain.
"This is easy" Wu Mingjin was quite satisfied with the fact that although the crossing group had the actual power of the county government, he still came to ask for his consent in everything, "The student issued a notice. β
At present, the caretaker issued a notice asking the county's grain households to donate and replenish the rice in the regular warehouse for disaster relief.
"We still have to pay for the bulk of this relief food." Xiong Bu said to Dude, "I asked the county magistrate, and he said that he could raise about 200 stone of brown rice and miscellaneous grains every year. β
"How much does the relief cost?"
"The Planning Commission is counting the damage," Xiong said, "but 200 stone plus the county treasury is certainly not enough." β
"Let's go out, let's go out, and when you are a ruler, you still have to take on some obligations." Nad said with annoyance, "Now I have to exempt some of the money and food." It's a bit of a loss! β
Australians are the first, "no one else dares not to buy it." This "donation" was surprisingly enthusiastic, and soon raised 400 stone from all over the world.
Dude took care of the people and distributed a part of the rice to various porridge sheds to boil porridge and distribute it to the victims.
"Be careful, don't ration too little, no less than their usual caloric intake." Dude took care of Jiang Qiuyan, who was responsible for the health of the victims, and "mobilized some noodles to ensure the intake of salt." β
"Is this necessary? Maintain a minimum physiological need to prevent them from starving to death, and feed them until the beginning of spring next year. "No, I'm not going to feed them," Dude said confidently, "and it's them who feed themselves." β
"What do you mean?"
"I'm going to have to give them better food next." As he spoke, he told Jihua that he had already talked to the executive committee.
His disaster relief jihua is simple: ICBC relief.
Cash-for-work has been an effective method in China's history of disaster relief, not only saving a large number of victims, but also creating many large-scale local projects. The successful experience of the ancients is naturally used by modern people.
At the disaster relief meeting, the Executive Committee decided to start a comprehensive road construction project in the winter, including the hardening of all roads, with the victims of the disaster as the main workers.
"It turns out," says Shan Daoqian, "that simple works built in pursuit of cheap and fast construction are the least economical." He added, "That's what the typhoon taught us." β
The damage to transport and communication lines was the worst, and hastily paved roadbeds had been loosened after a summer of rain, and the typhoon washed away more than a quarter of the total mileage. Only the county seat of Nanbao has a smooth road, partly because the inland area was relatively damaged by typhoons, but also because of the earliest roadbed and pavement reconstruction in order to facilitate heavy vehicle transportation.
Wen Desi said: "All the victims of this disaster will be allocated to you as laborers. Working until March next year, it's enough to fix all the roads, right? Nothing else, get all the roads through first! β
"I'm afraid not so soon,"
Wu Nanhai said: "Spring sowing will start in March, and we must help the victims resume production and let them return to the land as soon as possible."
"In my opinion, why help them get back into production?" Ma Qianzhu said leisurely, "We don't need a lot of small agricultural producers, just take this opportunity to turn him into an industrial worker, and we will buy back the land." This is a good opportunity to promote large-scale agricultural production! β
This line of thinking is a bit reversed, jumping from simple relief to the overall level. The participants tacitly exchanged glances with each other: this idea is not bad. The guiding ideology of the crossing group in agriculture is large-scale production, and there is no need for a large number of small farmers. Taking advantage of the natural disaster to transfer this group of peasants from the land is not only to increase the labor force under the direct control of the crossing group, but also to play the role of the countryside.
"Since most people don't like to carry out land reform." Ma Qianzhuo said, "We have seized this kind of opportunity." β
"Taking advantage of people's danger, is it too quiet and decent, Wu Nanhai expressed concern.
"There are no sheep eating people, where is the industrial revolution Ma Qianzhu doesn't care," Besides, we are a fair trade. As long as you don't force everyone, you have nothing to say
A decision was made to convert all the refugees into labourers under the control of the commune, to allocate housing and self-reserved land according to the standards of membership, and to enrol their children in school.
Those who are willing to sell their land will be bought by the Committee of Agriculture, and those who are not willing to sell can be retained, and in fact, once they become members of the commune, their production and labor are completely controlled by the commune, and even if they keep the land, they will only be abandoned in vain, and zuihou will still have to sell it to the committee of agriculture. This so-called betrayal of freedom is nothing more than a faΓ§ade.
This kind of method is really Wu Nanhai regretted.
"Don't you think we're still quite merciful compared to the nationalization of land, said Wen Desi. He was not interested in tricks such as land reform, but he was very interested in a comprehensive land state.
The fate of the hundreds of people who have been taken into the camps and the thousands who will be taken into the camps has been decided. This part of the land has fallen into the hands of the Committee of Agriculture. In particular, in some of the hardest-hit areas, entire villages have been sold in this way. However, the benefits from land are not as great as imagined. Land-rich households tend to be more resilient to disasters, and refugees are mostly poor peasants and tenants with low economic means.
In addition to establishing a refugee camp to accommodate refugees fleeing famine, the Civil Affairs Committee also provides relief according to the disaster situation of each village, and the affected villages are exempted from the "reasonable burden" for the current year. The relief plan for the villages that were not seriously affected but the crops were damaged, and the relief plan was to let them carry out self-help activities, and the Delong Grain Bank would lend them loans to rebuild their houses, and repay them the seeds for wheat and other famine-relief crops, which had a short growing period and were hardy, which was suitable for such a rush in late autumn and early winter. In the spring of the following year, loans will be made to the victims of rice seeds and farm tools.
After calculation, there is simply not enough food to be raised at present. The seeds from the spring ploughing alone are a big expense.
With modern management experience and a large number of well-trained, trained junior administrative personnel. Relief was quickly on track.
The scenes of refugees begging in and around the county soon disappeared, and were replaced by well-organized refugee camps. At the same time, the rescue of the affected villages is also being carried out in an orderly manner.
But Bude is not very reassured about this. One of the major characteristics of grass-roots administration is that no matter how good the wishes and determination of the upper echelons are, it is still difficult to control the actions of every low-level administrative personnel, especially when the rules and regulations are imperfect and there are loopholes. And the misdeeds of one grassroots administrative officer are enough to tarnish the image of all administrative personnel. This was a situation he definitely didn't want to see. It has been an open secret since ancient times that the relief zuihou after natural disasters has always become a feast for those in power at the grassroots level. Even the imperial court was helpless, knowing that the relief money and grain would be recorded layer by layer, and if there was not one out of ten in the hands of the victims, it was necessary to continue to allocate it, otherwise natural disasters would provoke a popular uprising, and sometimes even if it was allocated, it would also provoke a popular uprising. An important difference between the so-called prosperous times and the last days is that the former disaster relief materials can be distributed to the disaster victims to some extent, while the last days have become a complete division and monopoly.
"At the end of the day, it's a decline in administrative capacity. Dude said in a conversation with Ran Yao, "In the heyday, the institution was operating normally, and the degree of the officials had not affected the administrative execution ability. As the ** becomes more and more serious, the executive capacity of the administrative system also declines. β
Now, in order to provide disaster relief, many of the trainees who were in the training class yesterday have been mobilized to participate in the front-line work, and a large amount of disaster relief materials have been distributed through their hands, and many of the materials are not difficult to embezzle as long as they are cared for: brown rice mixed with sand and barnyard seeds, as long as the quantity is well controlled, it will definitely not attract attention. And the people do not have such a strong sense of reporting and rights protection as modern people.
Registering victims is another task that has many loopholes. Just as Dude has seen the subsistence allowance in the past. People who need subsistence allowance do not have subsistence allowance, but many people who don't worry about eating and drinking take subsistence allowance to play mahjong. With the strong control of the government over the grassroots in modern society, it is still full of loopholes, not to mention the crossing group that is dozens of times worse in conditions? Dude knew very well that he could check one by one whether the victims who received relief rice and received food exemptions were really affected. If someone wants to fish in troubled waters, there is a high chance that they will not be detected.
"You mean you want us to fight corruption?" Ran Yao understood what he meant. οΌοΌ